Jasper
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 08:58 AM |
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Best way to block all video on childs laptop
Best way to block all video on childs laptop
I need to restrict my daughters laptop so she can't watch any video at all. We already make her use the laptop only in the living room so we can
see the screen, but we have found she is using sites like YouTube to watch video that she shouldn't be watching - like the TV show
'Skins'.
Any thoughts? And I'm still yet to find an effective 'netnanny' type of software, any recommendations?
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:03 AM |
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unplug it
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:04 AM |
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Thats going to be very difficult to do......
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stevebubs
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:08 AM |
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mcafee is pretty good for netnanny duties...
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dan__wright
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:11 AM |
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remove flash player, that will stop youtube etc, remove windown media player and delete the old versions that are floating about.
FREE THE ROADSTER ONE…!!
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Duncan_P
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:14 AM |
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Rather than stopping all video on the computer, dont know enough about various netnanny software to tell you which ones could do this. Could you not
just block the common video sites like YouTube etc?? This you can do on most netnanny software
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whitestu
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:38 AM |
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A filtered internet feed would do what you want.
There may be easier ways, but something like this might do it:
Link
It may need a seperate box to run it on.
Stu
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whitestu
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:38 AM |
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A filtered internet feed would do what you want.
There may be easier ways, but something like this might do it:
Link
It may need a seperate box to run it on.
Stu
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andyharding
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 09:52 AM |
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If it was my child...
If she was caught looking at things I had banned (and I'd check the Internet history) then I'd take the laptop from her for a week.
She'd soon get the message and I wouldn't be reverting to the typical nanny state Britain.
Are you a Mac user or a retard?
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Davey D
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 10:00 AM |
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when i was about 14 ( im 27 now) i had some pictures of nekkid women on my computer. i was just looking through them when my little sister walked in
with a snack my mum had made for me.... she yelped out " awwww im telling mum of you.." i pleaded with her not to.. and she agreed.. 5
mins later my mum came marching up the stairs and bellowed " Whats this your sister says youve got on your computer..!!?? i want you to delete
it now" so i did.. several hours later my dad got home from work, and came upstairs to see me in my bedroom... he asked " do you still
have those pictures on your computer??" he wanted to have a perve at them heheh  
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D Beddows
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 10:12 AM |
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I sympathise greatly can't help I'm afraid because from my experience there isn't a foolproof solution, you'll
block/disable everything unsuitable they use this month but next month they'll have moved on to something/somewhere else and you have to start
all over again and the same the next month and the next month........
I've very reluctantly come to the conclusion you have to either let them use the internet and accept they only want to use for for things you
don't want them using it for and try and watch what they're doing in case they really overstep the boundaries or you don't let them
use it at all - in which case you become 'completely unreasonable evil parent' Our 14 year old thinks we're completely unreasonable
anyway mind you because we wont let her have an internet connection in her bedroom......
[Edited on 2/11/07 by D Beddows]
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Jasper
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 10:36 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by andyharding
If it was my child...
If she was caught looking at things I had banned (and I'd check the Internet history) then I'd take the laptop from her for a week.
She'd soon get the message and I wouldn't be reverting to the typical nanny state Britain.
Did that - last time she didn't have the laptop for the whole summer holidays.
To be fair, she uses it mostly for MSN, Bebo, Myspace etc which we don't mind. Is a real fine line between being overprotective and being
responsible......
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Keith Weiland
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| posted on 2/11/07 at 01:00 PM |
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Windows Vista
If the laptop runs windows vista there are
Parental Controls which can be set
in the user accounts of control panel. MS also offer something called Windows Live OnceCare Family Safety which
might do what you want and I think it works on XP too.
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tweek
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| posted on 3/11/07 at 05:26 PM |
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she'll find a way round it whatever you do, back when I was in school they had the computers locked down so we couldn't play games, heck
you couldn't even copy any files - we found a way round all the "protection" within a week, there is always a way round these
things, even if she just goes to a friends house.
Best method IMHO is education.
"oh dear..." said god,
"I hadn't thought of that"
and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic
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